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• Q&A: Southeast Alaska Food Bank on growing demand

  09-07-2026 21:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Dan Parks, the executive director of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, smiles for a photo at KTOO on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  For almost three decades the Southeast Alaska Food Bank has served people in Juneau, as well as other Southeast communities. KTOO’s Mike Lane visited with Dan Parks, the executive director of the food bank, about the organization’s beginnings, how it works, and how community members can help.
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• Newscast – Wednesday, July 8, 2026

  09-07-2026 03:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:The Juneau School District’s chief financial officer is resigning.
  Some whale advocates want to relist Pacific gray whales under the Endangered Species Act.
  A team of experts is working to salvage a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed on Sitka’s Harbor Mountain last month.
  A Soldotna swimmer brought home silver in the 50-yard freestyle at the Special Olympics USA games last month in Minnesota.
  
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• Turnover continues among Juneau School District top officials

  09-07-2026 01:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau School District Chief Financial Officer Nicole Herbert speaks during a school board meeting at Thunder Mountain Middle School in Juneau on march 13, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  The Juneau School District’s chief financial officer is resigning. That means nearly everyone in the district’s top leadership team will be new to their role this school year. 
  Nicole Herbert has worked for the district since March 2025 and was responsible for overseeing the district’s b
  
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• Many gas pipeline construction jobs will go to non-Alaskans, 2020 study indicates

  09-07-2026 01:03 via ktoo.org
  
  Fireweed blooms on either side of the trans-Alaska pipeline near mile post 86, Dalton Highway in 2006, two years after the 2004 Dall City fire. (Craig McCaa/BLM Alaska)
  If built as proposed, the trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline is expected to create thousands of jobs. Many, if not most, will go to people who don’t live in Alaska.
  A six-year-old study, commissioned by the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. as part of the project’s environmental statement, says “an estimated
  
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• Gray whales are washing up dead in large numbers along the Pacific Coast

  09-07-2026 00:52 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A gray whale washed up on the southern end of Kodiak’s road system, June 6, 2025. (Brian Venua/KMXT)
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  Pacific gray whales are washing ashore in high numbers this year.Their deaths are part of an overall population decline linked to climate change, and some whale advocates want to relist the species under the Endangered Species Act. 
  According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati
  
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